Week 28

This week we had a theme for the first time in a while - "The Journey".  It was great having a bit of focus and while the link may be a bit loose in some I have tried to link them all in.  I also got to thinking that life isn't all about the destination but about the fun we have getting to the places we are going so I tried to capture some of those moments of fun this week too...

Here is this weeks effort...

13 July - Journey's End

12 July - The friends you meet along the way 

11 July - A journey that starts out bright and early with a cardboard box and a flashlight

10 July - The point in a journey when you realise you don't know where the brakes are...

9 July - The best way to travel through evening traffic

8 July - The surprises you see in your everyday journey's

7 July - A journey away from home to visit new places (with their very own chocolate makers)

Week 27

What a week!!!
On Sunday we went to visit my Nan who moved into a rest home last weekend.

On Monday my Grandad went in for major open heart bypass surgery at exactly the same time that I had one of my biggest (and most stressful) meetings at work.  Like the trooper he is Grandad pulled through in fine form and later that night I went in to see him in the ICU before flying out to Wellington.  Oh, and did I mention Monday was also my Mum and brother in law's birthday and we had birthday dinner for them at our house??

On Tuesday we bumped and swayed through the sky in a plane through gale force winds and then once on the ground were shaken awake by a (thankfully very deep) 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Wellington!

On Wednesday I walked and bused by way around Wellington in meeting after meeting and for what may be the first time ever actually got tired of the sound of my own voice.

Then on Thursday and Friday we set of on a mini adventure into Wellington to stay at a fancy hotel with the girls and brave the cold southerlies (more on that here).

So in the context of that week I am pretty stoked with my photo's this week (on Monday I seriously considered taking a photo of the inside of my lens cap).

Here is this weeks effort...

6 July - Looking Out On A Grey Wellington Day

5 July - Ahhh, Luxury...

4 July - No More Photo's Mum

3 July - The View From Above The Clouds

2 July - Celebration After So Much Worry..

1 July - At the Rest Home Library

30 June - Who's The Fairest Of Them All?

Wellington...

This week we had an amazing adventure in Wellington...

We have had it all - roller coaster airplane rides, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake and so much public transport (2 train rides and 9 bus rides in the space of 3 days - ironically next weeks theme is journeys...) 

We came down for the first week of school holidays and spent most of the holiday at Gran's house but decided to give the girls a little treat and book a fancy hotel in Wellington CBD.  Despite it being only 10 degrees each day with a bracing southerly we were out in the (barely) heated pool every day and walked a lot around a very wet and windswept Wellington..  

Here are some of the photo's from our little holiday...

Week 26

This week I am most proud of the fact that I managed to get a photo each day - even if two of them were out of my window at work!

Hoping there will be some more opportunities with school holidays next week.

In the mean time here is next weeks effort...

29 June - Day Dreaming at the Mall

28 June - Blue on Bue on Blue

27 June - Rainbow

 26 June - Popcorn

25 June - View from my desk

24 June - Scary Bear...

23 June - Wet Lashes...

Week 25

Hooray for the shortest day of the year - it's finally going to start getting lighter at night!!

I had some fun this week playing with a few different things including the rose photo which was taken late at night with the car lights shining on it to illuminate it..

Here is this week's effort...

Friday 22 June - Midnight Rose

21 June - High Drama in a Reenactment of Sleeping Beauty

20 June - So Cool...

19 June - The Web

18 June - Bad Monday!

17 June - Reflections

16 June - Winter Tree

Week 24

Still struggling to find enough daylight hours during the week but making up for it in the weekend I hope.

I have also been thinking about the photo's that don't make it up on this blog which more accurately reflect the title of the blog so have posted a few of one of our amazing adventures from last weekend here.

Here is this weeks effort...

15 June - The Unattended Look Out

14 June - Watching The Broken Water Main!

13 June - Light Rays Through The Fence

12 June - Shower Fun

11 June - Morning Dew

 10 June - Whangarei Falls

9 June - Sunrise at Milford Beach (x2 - I couldn't choose)

An amazing adventure....

Sometimes I forget that the title of the blog was designed to reflect the purpose of this blog which was not only to take good photo's but also to chronicle the amazing adventures we get up to....

Last Sunday we decided to go up to Whangarei for the day which while not the most glamorous of holiday destinations it was heaps of fun and certainly an adventure..

We saw an amazing waterfall, went flying through a forest on a flying fox, balanced on wobbly bridges and played at a whole new park.  That's a pretty amazing adventure in our world and while they may not be the best photo's they are a little glimpse of our adventure...